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Jill and Hayley were leaving today to head to someplace else in Austria and I was staying the night and leaving tomorrow morning to Bucharest. Before the girls left they had a few things they needed to do around town and so I joined them on their errands. Hayley wanted to get a small advent calendar and a snow globe for a friend. Jill wanted to get a present for a friend’s birthday and as usual I just wanted more chestnuts. Fail, Fail, Fail and Fail. We wandered around for several hours and accomplished nothing. Eventually the girls decided they needed to catch their train and we all headed back to the hostel for lunch.

I purchased a frozen lasagna at the grocery store and popped it into the oven. When I had bought the lasagna, I was already hungry and didn’t realize that it said it would take 40 minutes on the box. The oven at the hostel was a small countertop type oven and the lasagna ended up taking even longer than that and it wasn’t even that good when I finally did get to eat it. I also bought some garlic bread that was amazing though.

The girls left for the train station and we said our final goodbyes for Europe, I only have 3 cities left on my trip and they are all far from where the girls will be. I had a great time with them and look forward to seeing them again somewhere else in the future.

With the girls gone I could get back to my usual antics of wandering aimlessly with my mp3 player in my ears. I went to an awesome park with all kinds of cool things to climb, walk, balance, dance, swing and jump on. I was having such a good time that I started to get evil looks from the parents there. I guess they didn’t like the big kid running around and jumping on all of the toys with their children so I left. I headed to the Schonbrunn Palace, a beautiful palace with immense gardens. I was listening to my music and looking at all of the lights from the buildings and the park. I stood in the middle of a clearing and just spun in circles and then fell down and sat on the ground laughing, it was a good time.

Back at the hostel I met an American who grew up in Saint Louis and now lives in Los Angeles. I would say he is my arch enemy, except that he was really nice and said he might know someone that could get me a job. I will keep my fingers crossed on that.

Tomorrow I head to Bucharest, not Budapest, in Romania by plane.

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